Your Happiness Calendar for January 2021
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How compassionate are you?
How generous, grateful, or forgiving?
Find out!
To psychologists, purpose is an abiding intention to achieve a long-term goal that is both personally meaningful and makes a positive mark on…
Read MoreAmericans are increasingly divided along social and political lines. The evidence for this polarization can be found in our most intimate…
Read MoreCompassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…
Read MoreRobert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…
Read MoreMindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…
Read MoreFor the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…
Read MoreAwe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
Read MoreWhen researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…
Read MoreMost of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
Read MorePsychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
Read MoreThe term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
Read MoreAltruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
Read MoreLearn the four steps to making an effective apology, with comedian Jolenta Greenberg of the By the Book podcast.
Boost your kindness by sending kind thoughts to someone you love—and to someone you don't get along with—with a little guidance from…
Instead of retaliating, our kids can learn to find peace by making the choice to forgive.
Parents can encourage their kids to practice kindness and caring toward themselves and others
A first-grade teacher, a best friend, a parent—high schoolers share their gratitude letters with their recipients.
Chris Murchison—an independent organizational culture consultant, coach, and advisor—shares how gratitude can be incorporated into…
Dacher Keltner gives an overview of the young science of awe, from how it's expressed to its benefits for health and well-being.
Jon Kabat-Zinn discusses what mindfulness and meditation are really about: presence of heart.
In this talk from the "Practicing Mindfulness & Compassion" conference on March 8, 2013, Magee explores how to apply contemplative practices…
“The approach we should take to all new studies is a curious but skeptical one. We should take it all seriously and we should take it all with a grain of salt.”― 11 Questions to Ask About COVID-19 Research, by Jeremy Adam Smith